A noncompact Weyl-Einstein-Yang-Mills model: A semiclassical quantum gravity

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2017.06.010zbMATH Open1373.83043arXiv1609.02475OpenAlexW3105504730MaRDI QIDQ1674480FDOQ1674480

Suat Dengiz

Publication date: 2 November 2017

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct and study perturbative unitarity (i.e., ghost and tachyon analysis) of a $3+1$-dimensional noncompact Weyl-Einstein-Yang-Mills model. The model describes a local noncompact Weyl's scale plus $SU(N)$ phase invariant Higgs-like field, conformally coupled to a generic Weyl-invariant dynamical background. Here, the Higgs-like sector generates the Weyl's conformal invariance of system. The action does not admit any dimensionful parameter and genuine presence of de Sitter vacuum spontaneously breaks the noncompact gauge symmetry in an analogous manner to the Standard Model Higgs mechanism. As to flat spacetime, the dimensionful parameter is generated within the dimensional transmutation in quantum field theories, and thus the symmetry is radiatively broken through the one-loop Effective Coleman-Weinberg potential. We show that the mere expectation of reducing to Einstein's gravity in the broken phases forbids anti-de Sitter space to be its stable vacua. The model is unitary in de Sitter and flat vacua around which a massless graviton, $N^2-1$ massless scalar bosons, $N$ massless Dirac fermions, $N^2-1$ Proca-type massive Abelian and non-Abelian vector bosons are generically propagated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02475

zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityspontaneous symmetry breakingnon-compact gauge symmetryWeyl's gauging

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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